Category Archives: Education

UPDATE: GMO

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | March 29, 2015

monsanto-152587_640Most of us have at least heard of Monsanto and the GMOs that it produces; and most of us know that Monsanto GMOs are not a result of careful selective breeding of the same specie of plant or animal but rather the splicing of genes from one specie to another providing a quicker and a more targeted approach; and after all,  genes are genes so why should you care if part of the corn you are eating has virus or pesticide DNA?   Like much of the ‘settled science’ by consensus, we are assured that GMOs are safe to eat by all the paid authorities, yet many countries have banned GMOs.   So my questions are:  If GMOs are so good for you, why has Monsanto spent millions preventing labeling of their products all across America?  If I built a fine product, I would be proud of the product and want to at least label it and let everyone know about my product, right?   And if GMOs are so good for you, why did Monsanto seek and receive legal liability protection from the US Federal Government?  There is much, much more to this story and it all makes Monsanto look bad in my opinion.  You can do your own research on the documented health effects and the law suits Monsanto has used to put its competition out of business.  Keep in mind that Monsanto also made Agent Orange.   Not a good citizen in my opinion.

Believe it or not, there is a link from Monsanto to the US takeover of Ukraine.  Apparently the IMF loan of $17 billion to Ukraine is conditioned on Ukraine allowing GMO crops.

Frederic Mousseau, who is a Policy Director at The Oakland Institute:

“We saw in 2013 that Monsanto invested $140 million in new seed plans in Ukraine. It is clearly the bread basket of Europe and it is a key target for a company like Monsanto, which sees this huge potential for production and this huge market. Europe has been quite resistant in allowing GMOs, but if they are successful in Ukraine then there might be a domino effect in Europe.”

The $17 billion IMF loan to Ukraine is contingent on Ukraine allowing GMO crops: IMF loan stipulations require permitting GMO production.

10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs
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Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops

GMO Advocate Says Monsanto’s Roundup Safe to Drink, Then Refuses Glass

Though Monsanto has under performed against the Nasdaq and S&P 500, it tracks the DOW pretty well over the past 5 years.  In any event, the overall trend is up.  The trending is lower Feb and March of this year, but it is not clear if all the mounting bad press will have any lasting impact on this politically well-connected and intrenched company.

Monsanto | Source Yahoo Finance

Monsanto | Source Yahoo Finance (Click for Larger View)

UPDATE:

Study Linking GMOs and Tumors Vindicated Yet Again…MSM Stays Silent

Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent

 

40 maps that explain the Middle East

world-map-306985Set aside a little bit of time if you plan to actually go through these fascinating maps compiled by Max Fisher.  You may or may not be surprised at all of these maps, but I bet you will improve your understanding of the Middle East considerably.  Enjoy!

40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015

Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.

 

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1) VIDEO: The Trilateral Commission and Technocracy

Published on Nov 5, 2013

Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Trilateral Commission embarked on a New International Economic Order based on Technocracy. Brzezinski called this the “Technetronic Era” in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages. History now reveals the original Trilateral strategy and the means by which they have carried it out.

The Trilateral Commission and Technocracy

2) LINK: Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era additional study opportunities on Zbigniew Brzezinski‘s technocracy.

3) VIDEO: Google “Bill Clinton rape” by James Corbett
Bill Clinton, exactly like Bill Cosby, is a multiply-accused rapist with allegations stretching back decades. And exactly like Cosby, Clinton has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit out of court. But unlike Cosby, Clinton continues to enjoy the adoration of the public and the benefits of his personal fortune. Why? Because we haven’t made it an issue yet. Let’s start: Google “Bill Clinton rape.”

4) ARTICLE: A Family Business of Perpetual War
Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There’s a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.

5) ARTICLE: The Rise of Russia and the ‘End of the World’
Great little history lesson. I’d like to see more Quigley in there but it is a good summary none the less and gives a peek into the history that is NOT taught in US Public Schools. For example: “As revealed by Antony Sutton, the extent of Western influence and control inside Soviet Russia is exemplified by the fact that, during the Vietnam war, the military vehicles being used by the North Vietnamese military to fight American soldiers were produced in a Soviet factory, the Kama River Truck Plant, owned by the US Ford corporation.”

6) VIDEO: America’s Surveillance State part 1 (The Surveillance Machine)

Published on Oct 22, 2014

We live in the United States of Surveillance–with cameras increasingly positioned on street corners and with much more invisible spying online and on the phone. Anyone who is paying attention knows that privacy could be out the window. All of this is not happening by accident -well funded powerful agencies and companies are engaged in the business of keeping tabs on what we do, what we say, and what we think.

To many in the world, today, the face of America also has A BIG NOSE for sniffing and sifting mountains of data—phone calls, emails and texts. And with many mouths silenced by paranoia to keep what they decide is secret, secret. America has become a Surveillance-Industrial State where everyone’s business has become its business, and where one huge US intelligence Agency has been given the sanction and unlimited amounts of money to spy on the whole world.

Mass Surveillance is the focus of this new 6 part investigative documentary series examining who is watching whom and why.

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Today, I ran across several important links I thought I would share in one bundle –as one post– in the interest of time.  Periodically, I’ll be posting several links to articles, videos or podcasts together that I think are particularly important, to make sure the information is distributed in a timely manner.  Enjoy!

1) ARTICLE: Brilliant Analysis of the Media by Paul Craig Roberts…
“Truth in Media is the Enemy of Washington, Truth is Our Country”: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Acceptance Speech, International Award For Excellence In Journalism, Mexican Press Club

2) ARTICLE: Power Play Behind Regime Change in Russia By Pepe Escobar
The Empire of Chaos dream of regime change in Russia has always hinged on controlling large swathes of Eurasia.

3) PODCAST: Excellent Podcast from James Corbett of The Corbett Report
“Pink Cadillac” is a silly and forgettable “action”/”comedy” flick starring Dirty Harry himself, Clint Eastwood. So what on earth does this cornball 1989 film have to do with the FBI’s “Patriot Conspiracy,” Timothy McVeigh and the OKC Bombing? Find out in this month’s exploration of Film, Literature and the New World Order.

4) PODCAST: Previously posted on ClearNFO:
Very important podcast with a ton of well-researched, source information that you need to be aware of. Please take the time to become informed. If you are not aware of Quigley’s or John Taylor Gatto’s work some of this may be a bit confusing, but the rest is key information you must become familiar with if you care to protect your freedom.

5) VIDEO: In the Productivity section, I have added a recent video I made of a lecture on Public Speaking and Storytelling by my friend Rashid Kapadia.  Hope you enjoy this and get some information you can use.
Published on Mar 17, 2015
Necessary Bridges – Public Speaking and Storytelling for Project Managers and Engineers
by Rashid N Kapadia PMP
Sponsored by PMI-Houston
February 11, 2015 at the Houston, Texas HESS Club
Video by David Brown, PMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Paf22aYNYw&feature=share

Russia: Unexamined Assumptions

David Brown Pic SnapShotThe Article below on Poland’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) is admittedly from a Russian perspective but informative and interesting none the less. Sometimes we must survey more than one story in our attempts to triangulate on the truth. Of course, this assumes that it is the truth we are after, eh? It is too obvious to me that some just don’t want to be bothered with the truth; and prefer rather to cling to their unexamined assumptions which deserve updating based on the facts on the ground readily available and documented. And it is a demonstrable fact that the Soviet Union built up a lot of ill will in the region and the world with their heavy-handed, authoritarian tactics since the October revolution of 1917 birthed the USSR in 1922, until its dissolution in 1991. Are there still vestiges of the old Soviet guard? Of course, but this sorry history should not be used to blind us of the facts we can prove today. The facts are that the USA has moved closer to the old authoritarian USSR and Russia has moved closer to the old freer USA. Neither are pure, however and require close scrutiny and a watchful eye.

SPUTNIK: Paranoia and Propaganda Dominate Poland’s New National Security Strategy

Who was Edward Mandell House?

Question – who was Edward Mandell House? Very important question to understanding the book that he wrote anonymously below. This man touches every aspect ofPhilip Dru Administrator your life, every minute of each and every day and has provided the fuel for the tyranny that engulfs the world today. And BTW, all those ‘slicky-boy’ hedge-fund managers who believe themselves geniuses, wouldn’t have a pot to pee in without ye ole E.M. House uh greasing the wheels.

“Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935″ is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book’s hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms that resemble the Bull Moose platform of 1912 and then vanishes.

Additional reading …

Philip Dru: Administrator

 

Waking the Lemmings

lemmings3Looks like the Wall Street Journal may have decided to stop being part of the Government echo chamber and engage their brain. Hope springs eternal that critical thought still lives, and may yet thrive some time in the future. Most American Lemmings, it seems, are content to repeat ‘authority’ figures ad nauseam as they are trained to do in our state-run education system. They never bother to consider the mindless, unproven drivel they haplessly repeat; and whose only foil against logic is to call names. The ability to critically analyze information seems to be lost on a majority of our fellows through time-tested washing of the brains by our scientific social engineers running amok in our media and our school systems.

The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%’
What is the origin of the false belief—constantly repeated—that almost all scientists agree about global warming?  By Joseph Bast And Roy Spencer

Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the “crippling consequences” of climate change. “Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists,” he added, “tell us this is urgent.”

Where did Mr. Kerry get the 97% figure? Perhaps from his boss, President Obama, who tweeted on May 16 that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” Or maybe from NASA, which posted (in more measured language) on its website, “Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.”

Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.

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Episode 001 – Meet Joe Plummer (Video)

Joe Plummer SnowPlease join me in a video conversation with author and researcher Mr. Joseph Plummer below.  Joe is the author of several excellent fiction and non-fiction books including  Leaving the Illusion, Dishonest Money and Tragedy and Hope 101. You can find reviews on each of these books and many others at ClearNFO.com.  Despite some serious Skype issues, this interview turned out great. Enjoy!

Meet Joe Plummer

Episode 001 – part 1 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

Episode 001 – part 2 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

Episode 001 – part 3 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

Episode 001 – part 4 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

Episode 001 – part 5 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

Episode 001 – part 6 of 6: ‘Meet Joe Plummer’ by ClearNFO.com

 

Philip Dru: Administrator

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Jan 21, 2015

250px-Colonel_Edward_M._HouseFascinating discussion between Richard Grove and James Corbett using a book written by one of the architects of the world we live in today, Edward Mandel House. “Philip Dru: Administrator” by Edward Mandell House is a starting point for this discussion which feathers out into the Milner group, the Cecil block, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA), Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes Round Table, Lloyd George, etc.

If you haven’t read ‘The Anglo-American Establishment’ by Carroll Quigley and understand the contents of G. Edward Griffin’s ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’, I’m not sure you can appreciate the veracity or the importance of the information contained herein. In any event, hopefully this important historical discussion will spark some interest within many to do some additional study on this topic. Understanding the reality behind the illusion that our masters have crafted, designed to keep us ignorant and under control will be key to preserving what little freedom the individual still possesses. We must fight the lies and propaganda spewing constantly from the media, the universities, the tax-free foundations and the government; we must fight these lies with a true accounting of history to preserve individual liberty and help the cause of liberty flourish.

Please enjoy this most exceptional discussion and book review…

Richard Grove of TragedyandHope.com and PeaceRevolution.org joins James Corbett on this month’s edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order to discuss “Philip Dru: Administrator” by Edward Mandell House. Richard and James examine the man behind the work and how the novel presages House’s time as the power behind the throne of the Wilson presidency.


No citation exists for this passage and is therefore unproven, but has been widely shared.  According to Kevin Cole:

“Unfortunately, this is a passage that *I don’t think can be substantiated*and is therefore bogus.”

This quote has been floating around online for the least eight years (never cited) or more and is one that I have tried to substantiate over a long period of time (as have others) which *included calling the presidential library. The only citation ever given from which this passage allegedly came is the autobiography of House, however it is not there.

While the passaged maybe contextually true, it passes way too much mustard. If it was in a private meeting was it documented? How? Where is the citation? You won’t find one.

[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”

– Edward Mandell House; in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson [President 1913-1921]

Edward Mandell House
by Christian name Mladen (Scribd.)

PHILIP DRU: ADMINISTRATOR
EDWARD M. HOUSE

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Dishonest Money – Book Review

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | December 10, 2014

CLEARNFO Rating: 5 / 5 Stars
Dishonest Money: Financing the Road to Ruin
by Joseph Plummer (December 19, 2008)
Note: there is an updated third edition dated 2011
Paperback: 175 pages
Available at Amazon and other book resellers

The information contained in ‘Dishonest Money’ is critical to any accurate understanding of money and banking, period. Having studied these topics for years, I am familiar with most of what Mr. Plummer discusses, but I have yet to see all the disparate pieces of this –sometimes confusing—puzzle come together so nicely in one easy to read and easy to understand book. It is easy andDishonest Mondy understandable because Mr. Plummer takes you step by step in a very thoughtful process meant to communicate not impress. ‘Dishonest Money’ will surly help even the expert clear out a few cobwebs and misunderstandings while being extremely approachable to the novice.

In my view, ‘Dishonest Money’ should be a vital part of any standard curriculum in public / private schools and universities interested in educating their students.   With this knowledge in the hands or rather the minds of the public, the Central bankers would likely never have another restful night’s sleep and would be looking over their shoulders with every step they take.

Other Plummer Books I recommend:

  • Tragedy and Hope 101
  • Leaving the Illusion

Editorial Reviews of ‘Dishonest Money’ …

“An excellent job of condensing a large and complicated topic.”
-G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island

“A great book on the private Federal Reserve…you can’t put it down.”
-Alex Jones, InfoWars.com

“A well-researched, well-written, user-friendly guidebook to how billions of people are being exploited and what we need to do about it. This is a major contribution to what is needed, highly recommended.”
-Foster Gamble, creator of THRIVE

“Understanding the Federal Reserve System has never been easier. A must read!”
-George Shepherd, Republic Magazine

“If someone is new to the subject and wants to get up to speed quickly on the Federal Reserve, Joe Plummer’s book is a great place to start, because he’s made the complicated both clear and concise.”
-Jim Babka, President of Downsize DC

“This could be the most important book you read in your lifetime! Succinct and illuminating, after reading this, you will possess the knowledge of history’s greatest scam. Read this book. Get your family to read this book. I can’t over emphasize this book’s import.”
-Mark Edge, host of Free Talk Live

After reading ‘Dishonest Money’, a good follow on would be G. Edward Griffin’s ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Below is a video of Mr. Griffin discussing ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’.

Joe Plummer’s ‘Dishonest Money’ – Now in German (Deutsch)